Chapter C

1. And in those days in one place the fathers together with their

sons shall be smitten,

And brothers one with another shall fall in death,

Till the streams flow with their blood.

2. For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and

his son’s sons,

And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured

brother:

From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.

3. And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of

sinners,

And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.

4. In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places,

And gather together into one place all those who brought down sin,

And the Most High will arise on that day of Judgement,

To execute great judgement amongst sinners.

5. And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians

from amongst the holy angels,

To guard them as the apple of an eye,

Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin,

And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to

fear.

6. And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise =in

security=,

And shall understand all the words of this book,

And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them

In the overthrow of their sins.

7. Woe to you, sinners, on the day of strong anguish,

=Ye who= afflict the righteous and burn them with fire:

Ye shall be requited according to your works.

8. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,

Who watch in order to devise wickedness:

Therefore shall fear come upon you,

And there shall be none to help you.

9. Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth,

And on account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness has

wrought,

In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.

10. And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your

deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in

reference to your sins because upon the earth ye execute judgement on

the righteous. 11. And He will summon to testify against you every cloud

and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you

from descending upon you, and they shall be mindful of your sins. 12.

And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from

descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and

silver from you that it may descend. 13. When the hoar-frost and snow

with their chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues

fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.

Chapter CI

1. Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the

Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence. 2. If He

closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from

descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then? 3. And if

He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition

Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness:

therefore ye shall have no peace. 4. And see ye not the =sailors= of the

ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are

shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble? 5. And therefore do they

fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and

they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and

they will perish therein.

6. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the

work of the Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and

confined it throughout by the sand? 7. And at His reproof it is afraid

and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; but ye sinners

that are on the earth fear Him not. 8. Has He not made the heaven and

the earth, and all that is therein? Who has given understanding and

wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea? 9. Do not

the =sailors= of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most

High.

Chapter CII

1. In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you,

Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance?

And when He launches forth His word against you,

Will you not be affrighted and fear?

2. And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,

And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.

3. And all the †angels shall execute their commands†

And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great

Glory,

And the children of earth shall tremble and quake;

And ye sinners shall be accursed for ever,

And ye shall have no peace.

4. Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,

And be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.

5. And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief,

And that in your life your body fared not according to your

goodness,

But =wait for= the day of the =judgement= of sinners,

And for the day of cursing and chastisement.

6. And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:

“As we die, so die the righteous,

And what benefit do they reap for their deeds?

7. Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,

And what have they more than we?

From henceforth we are equal.

8. And what will they receive and what will they see for ever?

Behold, they too have died,

And henceforth for ever shall they see no light.”

9. I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and

sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. 10. Have

ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of

violence is found in them till their death? 11. “Nevertheless they

perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits

descended into Sheol in tribulation.”

Chapter CIII

1. Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of

the Great and Honoured and Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness

I swear to you:

2. I know a mystery

And have read the heavenly tablets,

And have seen the holy books,

And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:

3. That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,

And written down for the spirits of those who have died in

righteousness,

And that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your

labours,

And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living.

4. And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live

and rejoice,

And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before

the face of the Great One

Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer fear

their contumely.

5. Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died,

If ye die in the wealth of your sins;

And those who are like you say regarding you:

“Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days.

6. And now they have died in prosperity and in wealth,

And have not seen tribulation or murder in their life;

And they have died in honour,

And judgement has not been executed on them during their life.”

7. Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol,

And they shall be wretched in their great tribulation.

8. And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is

grievous judgement shall your spirits enter;

And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the

world.

Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.

9. Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life:

“In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced

every trouble,

And met with much evil and been consumed,

And have become few and our spirit small.

10. And we have been destroyed and have not found any to help us

even with a word:

We have been tortured [and destroyed], and hoped not to see life

from day to day.

11. We hoped to be the head and have become the tail:

We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil;

And we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous,

And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us.

12. They have had dominion over us that hated us †and smote us;

And to those that hated us† we have bowed our necks,

But they pitied us not.

13. We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at

rest,

But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.

14. And we complained to the rulers in our tribulation,

And cried out against those who devoured us;

But they did not attend to our cries,

And would not hearken to our voice.

15. And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us and those who

made us few; and they concealed their oppression, and they did not

remove from us the yoke of those that devoured us and dispersed us and

murdered us, and they concealed their murder, and remembered not that

they had lifted up their hands against us.”

Chapter CIV

1. I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for

good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written

before the glory of the Great One. 2. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were

put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the

lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals

of heaven shall be opened to you. 3. And in your cry, cry for judgement,

and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on

the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. 4. Be

hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for ye shall have great joy as the

angels of heaven. 5. What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have

to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as

sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the

generations of the world. 6. And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see

the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not

companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall

become companions of the hosts of heaven. 7. And, although ye sinners

say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and written down,”

nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day. 8. And now I

show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins.

9. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of

uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor

take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness

issue not in righteousness, but in great sin. 10. And now I know this

mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness

in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practise great

deceits, and write books concerning their words. 11. But when they write

down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or

minish aught from my words, but write them all down truthfully—all that

I first testified concerning them. 12. Then, I know another mystery,

that books shall be given to the righteous and the wise to become a

cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. 13. And to them shall the

books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them,

and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths

of uprightness be recompensed.’

Chapter CV

1. In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the

children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye

are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. 2. For I and My

Son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in

their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of

uprightness. Amen.

FRAGMENT OF THE BOOK OF NOAH. (CVI-CVII.)

Chapter CVI

1. And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son

Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. 2. And his body

was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his

head †and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful†.

And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun,

and the whole house was very bright. 3. And thereupon he arose in the

hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and †conversed with† the Lord of

righteousness. 4. And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and

came to his father Methuselah. 5. And he said unto him: ‘I have begotten

a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of

the God of heaven; and his nature is different, and he is not like us,

and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is

glorious. 6. And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from

the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the

earth. 7. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore

thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the

truth, for his dwelling-place is amongst the angels.’ 8. And when

Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the

earth; for he had heard that I was there, and he cried aloud, and I

heard his voice and I came to him. And I said unto him: ‘Behold, here am

I, my son, =wherefore= hast thou come to me?’ 9. And he answered and

said: ‘Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and

because of a disturbing vision have I approached. 10. And now, my

father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a son, the like

of whom there is none, and his nature is not like man’s nature, and the

colour of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a

rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes

are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon

lighted up the whole house. 11. And he arose in the hands of the

midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven. 12. And

his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that

he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of

heaven; and behold I have come to thee that thou mayest make known to me

the truth.’ 13. And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: ‘The Lord will

do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision,

and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of

the =angels= of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. 14. And behold

they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united themselves with

women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have

begotten children by them. 17. And they shall produce on the earth

giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and

there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be

cleansed from all impurity. 15. Yea, there shall come a great

destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a

great destruction for one year. 16. And this son who has been born unto

you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved

with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die [he and his

sons shall be saved]. 18. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he

who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he

shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the

destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin

and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in

his days. 19. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness

than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the

mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed

me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.

Chapter CVII

1. And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall

transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression

is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good

comes upon it. 2. And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech

that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this)

is no lie.’ 3. And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father

Enoch—for he had shown to him everything in secret—he returned and

showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will

comfort the earth after all the destruction.

Chapter CVIII

1. Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for

those who will come after him, and keep the law in the last days. 2. Ye

who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of

those who work evil, and an end of the might of the transgressors. 3.

And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be

blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their

seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and

they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic

wilderness, and =in the fire shall they burn=; for there is no earth

there. 4. And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by

reason of its depth I could not †look over†, and I saw a flame of fire

blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and

sweeping to and fro. 5. And I asked one of the holy angels who was with

me and said unto him: ‘What is this shining thing? for it is not a

heaven, but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping

and crying and lamentation and strong pain.’ 6. And he said unto me:

‘This place which thou seest—here are cast the spirits of sinners and

blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert

every thing that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the

prophets—(even) the things that shall be. 7. For some of them are

written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may

read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits

of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been

recompensed by God; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked

men: 8. Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the

good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to

torture. 9. Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly

food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived

accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found

pure so that they should bless His name. 10. And all the blessings

destined for them I have recounted in the books. And He hath assigned

them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved

heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden

under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them

and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me. 11. And now I will summon

the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I

will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were

not recompensed with such honour as their faithfulness deserved. 12. And

I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name,

and I will seat each on the throne of his honour. 13. And they shall be

resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgement

of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation

of upright paths. 14. And they shall see those who were born in darkness

led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent. 15. And the

sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed shall

go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.’

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Chapter I

1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect

and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all

the wicked and godless are to be removed. 2. And he took up his

parable and said—Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God,

saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed

me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I

saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to

come. 3. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning

them:

The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,

4. And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount

Sinai,

[And appear from His camp]

And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of

heavens.

5. And all shall be smitten with fear,

And the Watchers shall quake,

And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of

the earth.

6. And the high mountains shall be shaken,

And the high hills shall be made low,

And shall melt like wax before the flame

7. And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,

And all that is upon the earth shall perish,

And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).

8. But with the righteous He will make peace,

And will protect the elect,

And mercy shall be upon them.

And they shall all belong to God,

And they shall be prospered,

And they shall all be blessed.

And He will help them all,

And light shall appear unto them,

And He will make peace with them.

9. And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones

To execute judgement upon all,

And to destroy all the ungodly:

And to convict all flesh

Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly

committed,

And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken

against Him.

Chapter II

1. Observe ye every thing that takes place in the heaven, how they

do not change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the

heaven, how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and

transgress not against their appointed order. 2. Behold ye the earth,

and give heed to the things which take place upon it from first to last,

how =steadfast= they are, how none of the things upon earth change,

but all the works of God appear to you. 3. Behold the summer and the

winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew

and rain lie upon it.

Chapter III

Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees seem as though

they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees,

which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to

three years till the new comes.

Chapter IV

And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the

earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the

heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with glowing heat, and so you

cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.

Chapter IX

1. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from

heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness

being wrought upon the earth. 2. And they said one to another: ‘The

earth, made †without inhabitant, cries the voice of their crying† up to

the gates of heaven. 3. And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the

souls of men make their suit, saying, “Bring our cause before the Most

High”.’ 4. And they said to the Lord =of the ages=: ‘Lord of lords, God

of gods, King of kings ‹and God of the ages›, the throne of Thy glory

(standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and

glorious and blessed unto all the ages! 5. Thou hast made all things,

and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open

in Thy sight, and all things Thou seest, and nothing can hide itself

from Thee. 6. Thou seest what Azâzêl hath done, who hath taught all

unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were

(preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to =learn=: 7. And

Semjâzâ, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his

associates. 8. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the

earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and

revealed to them all kinds of sins. 9. And the women have borne giants,

and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and

unrighteousness. 10. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died

are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their

lamentations have ascended: and cannot =cease= because of the lawless

deeds which are wrought on the earth. 11. And Thou knowest all things

before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost

suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in

regard to these.’

Chapter L

1. And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and

elect,

And the light of days shall abide upon them,

And glory and honour shall turn to the holy,

2. On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured

up against the sinners.

And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of

Spirits:

And He will cause the others to witness (this),

That they may repent

And forgo the works of their hands.

3. They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of

Spirits,

Yet through His name shall they be saved,

And the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,

For His compassion is great.

4. And He is righteous also in His judgement,

And in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not

maintain itself:

At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.

5. And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith the Lord

of Spirits.

Chapter LI

1. And in those days shall the earth also give back that which

has been entrusted to it,

And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,

And hell shall give back that which it owes.

5 a. For in those days the Elect One shall arise,

2. And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:

For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.

3. And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,

And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and

counsel:

For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified

him.

4. And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,

And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,

And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with

joy.

5 b. And the earth shall rejoice,

c. And the righteous shall dwell upon it,

d. And the elect shall walk thereon.

Chapter LII

1. And after those days in that place where I had seen all the

visions of that which is hidden—for I had been carried off in a

whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west— 2. There mine eyes saw

all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a

mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold,

and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.

3. And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, ‘What things are

these which I have seen in secret?’ 4. And he said unto me: ‘All these

things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed

that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.’

5. And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: ‘Wait a little and

there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things, which surround

the Lord of Spirits.

6. And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, The mountain of

iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,

And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the

mountain of lead,

All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One,

As wax before the fire,

And like the water which streams down from above [upon those

mountains],

And they shall become powerless before his feet.

7. And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,

Either by gold or by silver,

And none be able to escape.

8. And there shall be no iron for war,

Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.

Bronze shall be of no service,

And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,

And lead shall not be desired.

9. And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the

surface of the earth,

When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of

Spirits.’

Chapter LIII

1. There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who

dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and

presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become

full.

2. And their hands commit lawless deeds,

And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly =oppress=:

Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of

Spirits,

And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,

And they shall perish for ever and ever.

3. For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing

all the instruments of Satan. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went

with me: ‘For whom are they preparing these instruments?’ 5. And he said

unto me: ‘They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth,

that they may thereby be destroyed.

6. And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of

his congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in

the name of the Lord of Spirits.

7. And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his

righteousness,

But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,

And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.’

Chapter LIV

7-LV. 2. Noachic Fragment on the first World Judgement.

7. ‘And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits,

and He will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens,

and of the fountains which are beneath the earth. 8. And all the waters

shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the

masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. 9.

And they shall destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell

under the ends of the heaven. 10. And =when= they have recognized their

unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these

shall they perish.’

Chapter LIX

The Lights and the Thunder.

[LIX. 1. In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and

of the lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. ‘their judgement’):

and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits

willeth. 2. And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it

resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused

me to see the =judgements= executed on the earth, whether they be for

well-being and blessing, or for a curse, according to the word of the

Lord of Spirits. 3. And after that all the secrets of the lights and

lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for

satisfying.]

Chapter LV

3-LVI. 4. _Final Judgement of Azâzêl, the Watchers and their

children._

3. ‘When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels

on the day of tribulation and pain =because of= this, I will cause My

chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them, saith God, the Lord of

Spirits. 4. Ye †mighty kings† who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to

behold Mine Elect One, how he sits on the throne of glory and judges

Azâzêl, and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the

Lord of Spirits.’

Chapter LVI

5-8. Last struggle of heathen Powers against Israel.

5. And in those days the angels shall return

And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:

They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come

upon them,

And they shall rouse them from their thrones,

That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,

And as hungry wolves among their flocks.

6. And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect

ones,

[And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a

threshing-floor and a highway]:

7. But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their

horses.

And they shall begin to fight among themselves,

And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,

And a man shall not know his brother,

Nor a son his father or his mother,

Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,

And their punishment be not in vain.

8. In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,

And they shall be swallowed up therein,

And their destruction shall be at an end;

Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.’

Chapter LVII

1. And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of

wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east,

and from the west to the south. 2. And the noise of their wagons was

heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven

remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place,

and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other,

in one day. 3. And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of

Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.

LVIII-LXXI. =The Third Parable.=

Chapter LVIII

1. And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the

righteous and elect.

2. Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,

For glorious shall be your lot.

3. And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun,

And the elect in the light of eternal life:

The days of their life shall be unending,

And the days of the holy without number.

4. And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the

Lord of Spirits:

There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal

Lord.

5. And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven

That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage

of faith:

For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,

And the darkness is past.

6. And there shall be a light that never =endeth=,

And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come,

For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,

[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]

And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of

Spirits.

Chapter LX

1. In the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth

day of the month in the life of †Enoch†. In that Parable I saw how a

mighty quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the

Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times

ten thousand, were disquieted with a great disquiet. 2. And the Head of

Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous

stood around Him.

3. And a great trembling seized me,

And fear took hold of me,

And my loins gave way,

And dissolved were my reins,

And I fell upon my face.

4. And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised

me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not

been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the

quaking of the heaven. 5. And Michael said unto me: ‘Why art thou

disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His

mercy; and He hath been merciful and long-suffering towards those who

dwell on the earth. 6. And when the day, and the power, and the

punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath

prepared for those who worship not the righteous =law=, and for those

who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in

vain—that day is prepared; for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an

inquisition.

5. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it

shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not

come in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the

children with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place

according to His mercy and His patience.’

7. And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named

Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of

the waters. 8. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his

breast a waste wilderness named †Dûidâin†, on the east of the garden

where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up,

the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created.

9. And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of

those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into

the abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the

wilderness. 10. And he said to me: ‘Thou son of man, herein thou dost

seek to know what is hidden.’

11. And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden

told me, what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath

the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the

foundation of the heaven. 12. And the chambers of the winds, and how the

winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the =portals= of

the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the

power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is

fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names, and

how all the divisions are divided. 13. And the thunders according to the

places where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the

lightnings that it may lighten, and their host that they may at once

obey. 14. For the thunder has †places of rest† (which) are assigned (to

it) while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are

inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together

through the spirit and separate not. 15. For when the lightning

lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause

during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of

their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held

in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed

forward according to the many quarters of the earth. 16. And the spirit

of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his

strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven

forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth. 17. And the

spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is

a good angel. 18. And the spirit of the snow has forsaken (his chamber)

on account of his strength—there is a special spirit therein, and that

which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is frost. 19. And the

spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has

a special chamber; for its course is †glorious† both in light and in

darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel.

20. And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the

heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course

is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are

connected, and the one gives to the other. 21. And when the spirit of

the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the

chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it

unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the

water on the earth…. 22. For the waters are for those who dwell on the

earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is

in heaven: therefore there is a measure for the rain, and the angels

take it in charge. 23. And these things I saw towards the Garden of the

Righteous. 24. And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: ‘These

two monsters, prepared, conformably to the greatness of God, shall

feed….’

Chapter LXI

1. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those

angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went

towards the north.

2. And I asked the angel, saying unto him: ‘Why have those (angels)

taken these cords and gone off?’ And he said unto me: ‘They have gone to

measure.’

3. And the angel who went with me said unto me:

‘These shall bring the measures of the righteous,

And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,

That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for

ever and ever.

4. The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,

And those are the measures which shall be given to faith

And which shall strengthen righteousness.

5. And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of

the earth,

And those who have been destroyed by the desert,

And those who have been devoured by the beasts,

And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,

That they may return and stay themselves

On the day of the Elect One;

For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,

And none can be destroyed.

6. And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power

and one voice and one light like unto fire.

7. And that One (with) their first words they blessed,

And extolled and lauded with wisdom,

And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.

8. And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of

glory.

And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven,

And in the balance shall their deeds be weighed.

9. And when he shall lift up his countenance

To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the

Lord of Spirits,

And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of

the Lord of Spirits,

Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,

And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.

10. And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy

ones above, and the host of God, the Cherubin, Seraphin, and Ophannin,

and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and

the Elect One, and the other powers on the earth (and) over the water.

11. On that day shall they raise one voice, and bless and glorify and

exalt in the spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the

spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of

judgement and of peace, and in the spirit of goodness, and shall all say

with one voice: “Blessed is He, and may the name of the Lord of Spirits

be blessed for ever and ever.”

12. All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:

All the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless him,

And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:

And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and

extol, and hallow Thy blessed name,

And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy name for

ever and ever.

13. For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is

long-suffering,

And all His works and all that He has created

He has revealed to the righteous and elect,

In the name of the Lord of Spirits.’

Chapter LXII

1. And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the

exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: ‘Open your eyes and

lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.’

2. And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory,

And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,

And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,

And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.

3. And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the

mighty,

And the exalted and those who hold the earth,

And they shall see and recognize

How he sits on the throne of his glory,

And righteousness is judged before him,

And no lying word is spoken before him.

4. Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,

[And she has pain in bringing forth]

When her child enters the mouth of the womb,

And she has pain in bringing forth.

5. And one portion of them shall look on the other,

And they shall be terrified,

And they shall be downcast of countenance,

And pain shall seize them,

When they see that Son of Man

Sitting on the throne of his glory.

6. And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall

bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.

7. For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,

And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might,

And revealed him to the elect.

8. And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,

And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.

9. And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who

rule the earth

Shall fall down before him on their faces,

And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,

And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.

10. Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them

That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,

And their faces shall be filled with shame,

And the darkness shall grow deeper on their faces.

11. And =He will deliver= them to the angels for punishment,

To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His

children and His elect.

12. And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His

elect:

They shall rejoice over them,

Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,

And His sword is drunk with their blood.

13. And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,

And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and

unrighteous.

14. And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,

And with that Son of Man shall they eat

And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.

15. And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,

And ceased to be of downcast countenance.

16. And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,

And they shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:

And your garments shall not grow old,

Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.

Chapter LXIII

1. In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the

earth implore (Him) to grant them a little respite from His angels of

punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and

worship before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him.

2. And they shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:

‘Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,

And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,

And the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom;

3. And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation

to generation,

And Thy glory for ever and ever:

Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,

And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.

4. We have now learnt that we should glorify

And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is King over all kings.’

5. And they shall say:

‘Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks

And confess our faith before His glory!

6. And now we long for a little rest, but find it not:

We follow hard upon (it) and obtain (it) not:

And light has vanished from before us,

And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:

7. For we have not believed before Him,

Nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our

Lord]

But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,

And in our glory.

8. And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,

And we find no respite for confession,

That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and

His justice;

And His judgements have no respect of persons.

9. And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,

And all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.’

10. Now they will say unto themselves: ‘Our souls are full of

unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the

midst thereof into the †burden† of Sheol.’

11. And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness

And shame before that Son of Man,

And they shall be driven from his presence,

And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.

12. Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: ‘This is the ordinance and judgement

with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who

possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.’

Chapter LXIV

1. And other forms I saw hidden in that place. 2. I heard the

voice of the angel saying: ‘These are the angels who descended to the

earth, and revealed what was hidden to the children of men, and seduced

the children of men into committing sin.’

Chapter LXIX

1. And after this judgement they shall terrify and =make= them =to

tremble= because they have shown this to those who dwell on the earth.

2. And behold the names of those angels [and these are their names: the

first of them is Samjâzâ, the second Artâqîfâ, and the third Armên, the

fourth Kôkabêl, the fifth †Tûrâêl†, the sixth Rûmjâl, the seventh

Dânjâl, the eighth †Nêqâêl†, the ninth Barâqêl, the tenth Azâzêl, the

eleventh Armârôs, the twelfth Batarjâl, the thirteenth †Busasêjal†, the

fourteenth Hanânêl, the fifteenth †Tûrêl†, and the sixteenth Sîmâpêsîêl,

the seventeenth Jetrêl, the eighteenth Tûmâêl, the nineteenth Tûrêl, the

twentieth †Rûmâêl†, the twenty-first †Azâzêl†. 3. And these are the

chiefs of their angels and their names, and their chief ones over

hundreds and over fifties and over tens.]

4. The name of the first Jeqôn: that is, the one who led astray [all]

the sons of =God=, and brought them down to the earth, and led them

astray through the daughters of men. 5. And the second was named Asbeêl:

he imparted to the holy sons of =God= evil counsel, and led them astray

so that they defiled their bodies with the daughters of men. 6. And the

third was named Gâdreêl: he it is who showed the children of men all the

blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed [the weapons of death

to the sons of men] the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for

battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of men. 7. And from

his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell on the earth from

that day and for evermore. 8. And the fourth was named Pênêmûe: he

taught the children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them

all the secrets of their wisdom. 9. And he instructed mankind in writing

with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity to eternity

and until this day. 10. For men were not created for such a purpose, to

give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink. 11. For men were

created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue

pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have

taken hold of them; but through this their knowledge they are perishing,

and through this power †it is consuming me†. 12. And the fifth was named

Kâsdejâ: this is he who showed the children of men all the wicked

smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the

womb, that it may pass away, and [the smitings of the soul] the bites of

the serpent, and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat,

the son of the serpent named Tabâ’ĕt. 13. And this is the =task= of

Kâsbeêl, the chief of the oath which he showed to the holy ones when he

dwelt high above in glory, and its name is Bîqâ. 14. This (angel)

requested Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might enunciate

it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who

revealed all that was in secret to the children of men. 15. And this is

the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed

this oath Akâe in the hand of Michael. 16. And these are the secrets of

this oath….

And they are strong through his oath:

And the heaven was suspended before the world was created,

And for ever.

17. And through it the earth was founded upon the water,

And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters,

From the creation of the world and unto eternity.

18. And through that oath the sea was created,

And †as its foundation† He set for it the sand against the time of

(its) anger,

And it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world unto

eternity.

19. And through that oath are the depths made fast,

And abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity.

20. And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course,

And deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.

21. And through that oath the stars complete their course,

And He calls them by their names,

And they answer Him from eternity to eternity.

[22. And in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the winds, and

of all zephyrs, and (their) paths from all the quarters of the winds.

23. And there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the light of

the lightnings: and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and the

chambers of the hoar-frost, and the chambers of the mist, and the

chambers of the rain and the dew. 24. And all these believe and give

thanks before the Lord of Spirits, and glorify (Him) with all their

power, and their food is in every act of thanksgiving: they thank and

glorify and extol the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.]

25. And this oath is mighty over them,

And through it [they are preserved and] their paths are preserved,

And their course is not destroyed.

Close of the Third Parable.

26. And there was great joy amongst them,

And they blessed and glorified and extolled,

Because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed unto them.

27. And he sat on the throne of his glory,

And the sum of judgement was given unto the Son of Man,

And he caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the

face of the earth,

And those who have led the world astray.

28. With chains shall they be bound,

And in their assemblage-place of destruction shall they be

imprisoned,

And all their works vanish from the face of the earth.

29. And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible,

For that Son of Man has appeared,

And has seated himself on the throne of his glory,

And all evil shall pass away before his face,

And the word of that Son of Man shall go forth

And be strong before the Lord of Spirits.

This is the third Parable of Enoch.

Chapter LXV

1. And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and

its destruction was nigh. 2. And he arose from thence and went to the

ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah

said three times with an embittered voice: ‘Hear me, hear me, hear me.’

3. And I said unto him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the

earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I

shall perish with it.’ 4. And thereupon there was a great commotion on

the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. 5.

And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘Why

hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping?

6. And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning

those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because

they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of

the Satans, and all their powers—the most secret ones—and all the power

of those who practise sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the

power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: 7. And how

silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal

originates in the earth. 8. For lead and tin are not produced from the

earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel

stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.’ 9. And after that my

grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said

unto me: ‘Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this

commotion on the earth. 10. And He said unto me: “Because of their

unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not

be =withheld= by Me for ever. Because of the =sorceries= which they have

searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be

destroyed.” 11. And these—they have no =place of repentance= for ever,

because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned:

but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure,

and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.

12. And He has destined thy name to be among the holy,

And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth,

And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great

honours,

And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy

without number for ever.’

Chapter LXVI

1. And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are

prepared to come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are

beneath in the earth in order to bring judgement and destruction on all

who [abide and] dwell on the earth. 2. And the Lord of Spirits gave

commandment to the angels who were going forth, that they should not

cause =the waters= to rise but should hold them in check; for those

angels were over the powers of the waters. 3. And I went away from the

presence of Enoch.

Chapter LXVII

1. And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said

unto me: ‘Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a

lot of love and uprightness. 2. And now the angels are making a wooden

(building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand

upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of

life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain

without inhabitant. 3. And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever

and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall

not =be unfruitful= on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed

and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.’

4. And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in

that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me

in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft

metal and tin. 5. And I saw that valley in which there was a great

convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. 6. And when all this took

place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in

that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected

with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray

(mankind) burned beneath that land. 7. And through its valleys proceed

streams of fire, where these angels are punished who had led astray

those who dwell upon the earth.

8. But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the

mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the

healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their

spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for

they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and

yet believe not in His name. 9. And in proportion as the burning of

their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in

their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none

shall utter an idle word. 10. For the judgement shall come upon them,

because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of

the Lord. 11. And those same waters shall undergo a change in those

days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these

water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels

ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold. 12. And

I heard Michael answering and saying: ‘This judgement wherewith the

angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who

possess the earth.’ 13. Because these waters of judgement minister to

the healing of the body of the =kings= and the lust of their body;

therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will

change and become a fire which burns for ever.

Chapter LXVIII

1. And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of

all the secrets in the book and in the Parables which had been given to

him; and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the

Parables. 2. And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: ‘The

power of the spirit transports and =makes me to tremble= because of the

severity of the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels:

who can endure the severe judgement which has been executed, and before

which they melt away?’ 3. And Michael answered again, and said to

Raphael: ‘Who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it, and whose

reins are not troubled by this word of judgement (that) has gone forth

upon them because of those who have thus led them out?’ 4. And it came

to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to

Raphael: ‘I will not take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the

Lord of Spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were

the Lord. 5. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever

and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion (in it), but

alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever.’

Chapter LXX

1. And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime

was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from

amongst those who dwell on the earth. 2. And he was raised aloft on the

chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. 3. And from

that day I was no longer numbered amongst them; and he set me between

the two winds, between the north and the west, where the angels took the

cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. 4. And

there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning

dwell in that place.

Chapter LXXI

1. And it came to pass after this that my spirit was

translated

And it ascended into the heavens:

And I saw the =holy sons of God=.

They were stepping on flames of fire:

Their garments were white [and their raiment],

And their faces shone like snow.

2. And I saw two streams of fire,

And the light of that fire shone like hyacinth,

And I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.

3. And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by my

right hand,

And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,

And he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.

4. And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven,

And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,

Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.

5. And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens,

And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals,

And between those crystals tongues of living fire.

6. And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire,

And on its four sides were streams full of living fire,

And they girt that house.

7. And round about were Seraphin, Cherubin, and Ophannin:

And these are they who sleep not,

And guard the throne of His glory.

8. And I saw angels who could not be counted.

A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand.

Encircling that house,

And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,

And the holy angels who are above the heavens,

Go in and out of that house.

9. And they came forth from that house,

And Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel,

And many holy angels without number.

10. And with them the Head of Days,

His head white and pure as wool,

And His raiment indescribable.

11. And I fell on my face,

And my whole body became relaxed,

And my spirit was transfigured;

And I cried with a loud voice,

with the spirit of power,

And blessed and glorified and extolled.

12. And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well

pleasing before that Head of Days. 13. And that Head of Days came with

Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of

angels without number.

[Lost passage wherein the Son of Man was described as accompanying

the Head of Days, and Enoch asked one of the angels (as in 46^3)

concerning the Son of Man as to who he was.]

14. And he (i. e. the angel) came to me and greeted me with His voice,

and said unto me:

‘=This is= the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness;

And righteousness abides over =him=,

And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes =him= not.’

15. And he said unto me:

‘He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come;

For from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world,

And so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.

16. And all shall walk in =his= ways since righteousness never

forsakes =him=:

With =him= will be their dwelling-places, and with =him= their

heritage,

And they shall not be separated from =him= for ever and ever and

ever.

17. And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man,

And the righteous shall have peace and an upright way,

In the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’

THE BOOK OF THE COURSES OF THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES. (LXXII-LXXXII.)

Chapter LXXII

1. The Book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the

relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their

seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to

their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their

guide, showed me; and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are,

and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto

eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till

eternity. 2. And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary

the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its

setting in the western portals of the heaven. 3. And I saw six portals

in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets: and the

moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and

those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all

following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many

windows to the right and left of these portals. 4. And first there goes

forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like

the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with

illuminating and heating fire. 5. The chariot on which he ascends, the

wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and returns through

the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to

the appropriate (lit. ‘that’) portal and shines in the face of the

heaven. 6. In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal,

which is the fourth [those six portals in the east]. 7. And in that

fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve

window-openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in

their season. 8. When the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth

through that fourth portal thirty mornings in succession, and sets

accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven. 9. And during

this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter

to the thirtieth morning. 10. On that day the day is longer than the

night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the

night to eight parts. 11. And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and

sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty

mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal. 12. And then

the day becomes longer by †two† parts and amounts to eleven parts, and

the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts. 13. And it returns

to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in the

sixth portal one and thirty mornings on account of its sign. 14. On that

day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes double

the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened

and becomes six parts. 15. And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter

and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into

the sixth portal, and rises from it and sets thirty mornings. 16. And

when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one

part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. 17. And the sun

goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and

rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west

again in the fifth western portal. 18. On that day the day decreases by

†two† parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts. 19.

And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth

portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one and thirty

mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west. 20. On that day

the day is equalised with the night, [and becomes of equal length], and

the night amounts to nine parts and the day to nine parts. 21. And the

sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east

and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in

the third portal. 22. And on that day the night becomes longer than the

day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till

the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and

the day to eight parts. 23. And the sun rises from that third portal and

sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for

thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east, and in like

manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven. 24. And on

that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts.

25. And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in

the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first

portal for one and thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal in the

west of the heaven. 26. And on that day the night becomes longer and

amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts exactly to

twelve parts and the day to six. 27. And the sun has (therewith)

traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those divisions

of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in

the west opposite to it. 28. And on that night has the night decreased

in length by a †ninth† part, and the night has become eleven parts and

the day seven parts. 29. And the sun has returned and entered into the

second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his

orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting. 30. And on that day the

night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the

day to eight. 31. And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and

sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal

for one and thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven. 32. On

that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to

nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as

to its days three hundred and sixty-four. 33. And the length of the day

and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night

arise—through the course of the sun these distinctions are made (lit.

‘they are separated’). 34. So it comes that its course becomes daily

longer, and its course nightly shorter. 35. And this is the law and the

course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and

rises, i. e. the great luminary which is named the Sun, for ever and

ever. 36. And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so

named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded. 37.

As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day

and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon;

but as regards size they are both equal.

Chapter LXXIII

1. And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller

luminary, which is named the Moon. 2. And her circumference is like the

circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is

driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure. 3.

And her rising and setting changes every month: and her days are like

the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform (i. e. full) it

amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun. 4. And thus she

rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth

morning: and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you

the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun

in the portal where the sun rises. 5. And the one half of her goes forth

by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light,

with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the fourteenth part

of her light. 6. And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of

her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half thereof.

7. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with

him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the

beginning of her morning [in the commencement of the lunar day] the moon

sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts

and the half of one of them. 8. And she rises on that day with exactly a

seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun,

and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the (remaining) thirteen

parts.

Chapter LXXIV

1. And I saw another course, a law for her, (and) how according

to that law she performs her monthly revolution. 2. And all these Uriel,

the holy angel who is the leader of them all, showed to me, and their

positions, and I wrote down their positions as he showed them to me, and

I wrote down their months as they were, and the appearance of their

lights till fifteen days were accomplished. 3. In single seventh parts

she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts

accomplishes all her darkness in the west. 4. And in certain months she

alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar

course. 5. In two months the moon sets with the sun in those two middle

portals the third and the fourth. 6. She goes forth for seven days, and

turns about and returns again through the portal where the sun rises,

and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes from the sun, and in

eight days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth. 7. And

when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven

days, until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven

days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she

recedes and enters into the first portal in eight days. 8. And she

returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun

goes forth. 9. Thus I saw their position—how the moons rose and the sun

set in those days. 10. And if five years are added together the sun has

an overplus of thirty days, and all the days which accrue to it for one

of those five years, when they are full, amount to 364 days. 11. And the

overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6

days every year come to 30 days: and the moon falls behind the sun and

stars to the number of 30 days. 12. And =the sun= and the stars bring in

all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their

position by a single day unto eternity; but =complete= the years with

perfect justice in 364 days. 13. In 3 years there are 1092 days, and in

5 years 1820 days, so that in 8 years there are 2912 days. 14. For the

moon alone the days amount in 3 years to 1062 days, and in 5 years she

falls 50 days behind: [i. e. to the sum (of 1770) there is to be added

(1000 and) 62 days]. 15. And in 5 years there are 1770 days, so that for

the moon the days in 8 years amount to 2832 days. 16. [For in 8 years

she falls behind to the amount of 80 days], all the days she falls

behind in 8 years are 80. 17. And the year is accurately completed in

conformity with their world-stations and the stations of the sun, which

rise from the portals through which it (the sun) rises and sets 30 days.

Chapter LXXIX

1. And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of

all the stars of the heaven is completed. 2. And he showed me all the

laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and

for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribed to

it every month and every week: 3. And the waning of the moon which takes

place in the sixth portal: for in this sixth portal her light is

accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of the waning: 4.

‹And the waning› which takes place in the first portal in its season,

till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned

according to weeks, twenty-five (weeks) and two days. 5. She falls

behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the

course of one period, and when this place which thou seest has been

traversed. 6. Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which

Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.

Chapter LXXV

1. And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed

over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the

four intercalary days, being inseparable from their office, according to

the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the four days

which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year. 2. And owing to

them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on

the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of

the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and

the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three

hundred and sixty-four stations. 3. For the signs and the times and the

years and the days the angel Uriel showed to me, whom the Lord of glory

hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the heaven, in the heaven

and in the world, that they should rule on the face of the heaven and be

seen on the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night, i. e. the

sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering creatures which make their

revolution in all the chariots of the heaven. 4. In like manner twelve

doors Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun’s chariot in

the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them

is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their

appointed seasons. 5. [And for the winds and the spirit of the dew† when

they are opened, standing open in the heavens at the ends.] 6. As for

the twelve portals in the heaven, at the ends of the earth, out of which

go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the

east and in the west. 7. There are many windows open to the left and

right of them, and one window at its (appointed) season produces warmth,

corresponding (as these do) to those doors from which the stars come

forth according as He has commanded them, and wherein they set

corresponding to their number. 8. And I saw chariots in the heaven,

running in the world, above those portals in which revolve the stars

that never set. 9. And one is larger than all the rest, and it is that

that makes its course through the entire world.

Chapter LXXVI

1. And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all

the =quarters= (of the heaven), from which the winds go forth and blow

over the earth. 2. Three of them are open on the face (i. e. the east)

of the heavens, and three in the west, and three on the right (i. e.

the south) of the heaven, and three on the left (i. e. the north). 3.

And the three first are those of the east, and three are of †the north,

and three [after those on the left] of the south†, and three of the

west. 4. Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity,

and from those eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring

destruction on all the earth and on the water upon it, and on all who

dwell thereon, and on everything which is in the water and on the land.

5. And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes

forth through the first portal which is in the east, inclining towards

the south: from it come forth desolation, drought, heat, and

destruction. 6. And through the second portal in the middle comes what

is fitting, and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity

and dew; and through the third portal which lies toward the north come

cold and drought.

7. And after these come forth the south winds through three portals:

through the first portal of them inclining to the east comes forth a hot

wind. 8. And through the middle portal next to it there come forth

fragrant smells, and dew and rain, and prosperity and health. 9. And

through the third portal lying to the west come forth dew and rain,

locusts and desolation.

10. And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east

come dew and rain, locusts and desolation. 11. And from the middle

portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew and

prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and

hoar-frost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts.

12. And after these [four] are the west winds: through the first portal

adjoining the north come forth dew and hoar-frost, and cold and snow and

frost. 13. And from the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and

prosperity and blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the

south come forth drought and desolation, and burning and destruction.

14. And the twelve portals of the four =quarters= of the heaven are

therewith completed, and all their laws and all their plagues and all

their benefactions have I shown to thee, my son Methuselah.

Chapter LXXVII

1. And the first =quarter= is called the east, because it is the

first: and the second, the south, because the Most High =will descend=

there, yea, there in quite a special sense will He who is blessed for

ever =descend=. 2. And the west =quarter= is named the diminished,

because there all the luminaries of the heaven wane and go down. 3. And

the fourth =quarter=, named the north, is divided into three parts: the

first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas

of water, and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and

clouds; and the third part contains the garden of righteousness.

4. I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are

on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and

years pass away. 5. I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the

rivers: one of them coming from the †west† pours its waters into the

Great Sea. 6. And these two come from the north to the sea and pour

their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east. 7. And the remaining

four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, ‹two of them

to› the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge

themselves there [and some say: into the desert]. 8. Seven great islands

I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in

the Great Sea.

Chapter LXXVIII

1. And the names of the sun are the following: the first

Orjârês, and the second Tômâs. 2. And the moon has four names: the first

name is Asônjâ, the second Eblâ, the third Benâsê, and the fourth Erâe.

3. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the

circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both

is alike. 4. In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of

light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite

measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is

exhausted. 5. And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make

their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern

portals on the face of the heaven. 6. And when the moon rises

one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: [the light becomes full in

her]: on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. 7. And fifteen

parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her

light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she

becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by (the addition of)

fourteenth parts. 8. And in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first

day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of

light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to

ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to

seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to

four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the

fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light

disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 9. And in certain months the month

has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. 10. And Uriel showed me

another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it

is transferred to her by the sun. 11. During all the period during which

the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when

opposite to the sun during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in

the heaven], and when she is illumined throughout, her light is

accomplished in the heaven. 12. And on the first day she is called the

new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. 13. She becomes full

moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east

she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the

sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun.

14. On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again

she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are

at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light. 15. And three

months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months

of twenty-nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the

first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and

seventy-seven days. 16. And in the time of her going out she appears for

three months (of) thirty days each, and for three months she appears

(of) twenty-nine each. 17. At night she appears like a man for twenty

days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is

nothing else in her save her light.

LXXIX-LXXX. 1. Recapitulation of several of the Laws.

Chapter LXXX

2-8. _Perversion of Nature and the heavenly Bodies owing to the

Sin of Men._

2. And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,

And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,

And all things on the earth shall alter,

And shall not appear in their time:

And the rain shall be kept back,

And the heaven shall withhold (it).

3. And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,

And shall not grow in their time,

And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.

4. And the moon shall alter her order,

And not appear at her time.

5. [And in those days the =sun= shall be seen and he shall journey

in the =evening= †on the extremity of the great chariot in† the

west]

And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.

6. And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order

(prescribed);

And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,

And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.

7. And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the

sinners,

And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them,

[And they shall be altered from all their ways],

Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.

8. And evil shall be multiplied upon them,

And punishment shall come upon them

So as to destroy all.’

Chapter LXXXI

1. And he said unto me:

‘Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets,

And read what is written thereon,

And mark every individual fact.’

2. And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was

written (thereon) and understood everything, and read the book of all

the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that shall be

upon the earth to the remotest generations. 3. And forthwith I blessed

the great Lord, the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the

works of the world.

And I extolled the Lord because of His patience,

And blessed Him because of the children of men.

4. And after that I said:

‘Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,

Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written,

And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.’

5. And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth

before the door of my house, and said to me: ‘Declare everything to thy

son Methuselah, and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous

in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator. 6. One year we will

leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou

mayest teach thy children and record (it) for them, and testify to all

thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their

midst.

7. Let thy heart be strong,

For the good shall announce righteousness to the good;

The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,

And shall offer congratulation to one another.

8. But the sinners shall die with the sinners,

And the apostate go down with the apostate.

9. And those who practise righteousness shall die on account of the

deeds of men,

And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.’

10. And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my

people, blessing the Lord of the world.

Chapter LXXXII

1. And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting

to thee and writing down for thee, and I have revealed to thee

everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my

son Methuselah, the books from thy father’s hand, and (see) that thou

deliver them to the generations of the world.

2. I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children,

[And thy children that shall be to thee],

That they may give it to their children for generations,

This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.

3. And those who understand it shall not sleep,

But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,

And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.

4. Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the

way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners in the reckoning of all

their days in which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and

departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands

of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated

which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter

with them four days. 5. Owing to them men shall be at fault and not

reckon them in the =whole reckoning of the year=: yea, men shall be at

fault, and not recognize them accurately. 6. For they belong to the

reckoning of the year and are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one in

the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in

the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four

days.

7. And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning

thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years

and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, =to whom= the Lord of the

whole creation of the world has =subjected= the host of heaven. 8. And

he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give

light to men—sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven

which revolve in their circular chariots. 9. And these are the orders of

the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals

and months.

10. And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch =that

they= enter at their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their

months, in their periods of dominion, and in their positions. 11. Their

four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and

after them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and

for the three hundred and sixty (days) there are heads over thousands

who divide the days; and for the four intercalary days there are the

leaders which sunder the four parts of the year. 12. And these heads

over thousands are intercalated between leader and leader, each behind a

station, but their leaders make the division. 13. And these are the

names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are

ordained: Mîlkî’êl, Hel’emmêlêk, and Mêl’êjal, and Nârêl. 14. And the

names of those who lead them: Adnâr’êl, and Îjâsûsa’êl, and

‘Elômê’êl—these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one

that follows the three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders

of stations that divide the four parts of the year.

15. In the beginning of the year Melkejâl rises first and rules, who is

named †Tam’âinî, and sun† and all the days of his dominion whilst he

bears rule are ninety-one days. 16. And these are the signs of the days

which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and

heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves are produced

on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose-flowers, and

all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the

winter season become withered. 17. And these are the names of the

leaders which are under them: Berka’êl, Zêlebs’êl, and another who is

added a head of a thousand, called Hîlûjâsěph: and the days of the

dominion of this (leader) are at an end.

18. The next leader after him is Hêl’emmêlêk, whom one names the shining

sun, and all the days of his light are ninety-one days. 19. And these

are the signs of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and

the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and

ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the

earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the fields, and the

winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion. 20.

These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of

thousands: Gîdâ’îjal, Kê’êl, and Hê’êl, and the name of the head of a

thousand which is added to them, Asfâ’êl’: and the days of his dominion

are at an end.

THE DREAM-VISIONS. (LXXXIII-XC.)

Chapter LXXXIII

1. And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions

which I have seen, recounting them before thee. 2. Two visions I saw

before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first

when I was learning to write, the second before I took thy mother,

(when) I saw a terrible vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord.

3. I had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I

saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to

the earth. 4. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was

swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on

mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from

their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. 5. And thereupon a

word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and

said: ‘The earth is destroyed.’ 6. And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me

as I lay near him, and said unto me: ‘Why dost thou cry so, my son, and

why dost thou make such lamentation?’ 7. And I recounted to him the

whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto me: ‘A terrible thing

hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream-vision as to

the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and

be destroyed with a great destruction. 8. And now, my son, arise and

make petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a believer, that a

remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole

earth. 9. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and

upon the earth there will be great destruction.’ 10. After that I arose

and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the

generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son

Methuselah. 11. And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and

the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few

stars, and the whole earth, and everything as †He had known† it in the

beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because

He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, †and he

ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept

traversing the path shown unto him.

Chapter LXXXIV

1. And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the

Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the

tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of

men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a

tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:

2. ‘Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,

Great and mighty in Thy greatness,

Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,

King of kings and God of the whole world.

And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever,

And throughout all generations Thy dominion:

And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,

And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.

3. For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,

And nothing is too hard for Thee,

Wisdom departs not =from the place of Thy throne=,

=Nor turns away= from Thy presence.

And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,

And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].

4. And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,

And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of

judgement.

5. And now, O God and Lord and Great King,

I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,

To leave me a posterity on earth,

And not to destroy all the flesh of man,

And make the earth without inhabitant,

So that there should be an eternal destruction.

6. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has

aroused Thy wrath,

But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant

of the eternal seed,

And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.’

LXXXV-XC. _The Second Dream-Vision of Enoch: the History of the World to

the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom._

Chapter LXXXIX

72-77. _Second Period—from the time of Cyrus to that of

Alexander the Great._

72. And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and

behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began

to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars

tried to hinder them, but they were not able. 73. And they began again

to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the

high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but

all the bread on it was polluted and not pure. 74. And as touching all

this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and (the

eyes of) their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large

numbers to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep

with their feet and devoured them. 75. And the Lord of the sheep

remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and

mingled with them (i. e. the beasts), and they (i. e. the shepherds)

did not save them out of the hand of the beasts. 76. And this one who

wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord

of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought Him on

their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and gave

testimony before Him against all the shepherds. 77. And he took the

actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.

Chapter LXXXV

1. And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole

dream to thee, my son. 2. And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to

his son Methuselah: ‘To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my

words—incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father. 3. Before I

took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull

came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came

forth a heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one

of them black and the other red. 4. And that black bull gored the red

one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see

that red bull. 5. But that black bull grew and that heifer went with

him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and

followed him. 6. And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of

that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and

lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him. 7. And I

looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that

time onward she cried no more. 8. And after that she bore another white

bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.

9. And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a

great white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they

resembled him. 10. And they began to beget many white bulls, which

resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.

Chapter LXXXVI

1. And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the

heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and ate

and pastured amongst those oxen. 2. And after that I saw the large and

the black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures

and their cattle, and began to live with each other. 3. And again I saw

in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many

stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star,

and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them

[amongst them]. 4. And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let

out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the

oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels and asses.

5. And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began

to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns. 6.

And they began moreover to devour those oxen; and behold all the

children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee

from them.

Chapter LXXXVII

1. And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to

devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud. 2. And I raised

mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there

came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went

forth from that place and three with them. 3. And those three that had

last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the

generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed

me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower. 4.

And one said unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that

befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen,

and all of them.’

Chapter LXXXVIII

1. And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and

he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it

hand and foot and cast it into an abyss: now that abyss was narrow and

deep, and horrible and dark. 2. And one of them drew a sword, and gave

it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite

each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them. 3. And as I was

beholding in the vision, lo, one of the four who had come forth stoned

(them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose

privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all hand and

foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.

Chapter V

1. Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and

bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His

works, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.

2. And all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and

all the tasks which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change

not, but according as God hath ordained so is it done.

3. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and

change not their tasks from His commandments.

4. But ye—ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of

the Lord,

But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words

With your impure mouths against His greatness.

Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.

5. Therefore shall ye execrate your days,

And the years of your life shall perish,

And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal

execration,

And ye shall find no mercy.

6_a._ In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration

unto all the righteous,

b. And by you shall all who curse, curse.

c. And all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,

7_c._ And for you, the godless, there shall be a curse.

6_d._ And all the … shall rejoice,

e. And there shall be forgiveness of sins,

f. And every mercy and peace and forbearance:

g. There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light.

i. And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation,

j. But on you all shall abide a curse.

7_a._ But for the elect there shall be light and grace and peace,

b. And they shall inherit the earth.

8. And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom,

And they shall all live and never again sin,

Either through ungodliness or through pride;

But they who are wise shall be humble.

9. And they shall not again transgress,

Nor shall they sin all the days of their life,

Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath,

But they shall complete the number of the days of their life.

And their lives shall be increased in peace,

And the years of their joy shall be multiplied,

In eternal gladness and peace,

All the days of their life.

VI-XI. _The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the

Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by

God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom_ (a Noah fragment).

Chapter VI

1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that

in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And

the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and

said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the

children of men and beget us children.’ 3. And Semjâzâ, who was their

leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this

deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ 4. And

they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind

ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this

thing.’ 5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual

imprecations upon it. 6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended

in the days of =Jared= on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called

it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual

imprecations upon it. 7. And these are the names of their leaders:

Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl,

Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl,

Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, =Sariêl=. 8. These are their chiefs

of tens.

Chapter VII

1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves

wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them

and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and

enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with

plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose

height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of

men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. The giants turned

against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against

birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s

flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against

the lawless ones.

Chapter VIII

1. And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields,

and breastplates, and made known to them =the metals= ‹of the earth› and

the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of

antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly

stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And there arose much

godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray,

and became corrupt in all their ways. 3. Semjâzâ taught enchantments,

and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl,

(taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, =Ezêqêêl the knowledge

of the clouds=, ‹Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of

the sun›, and Sariêl the course of the moon. 4. And as men perished,

they cried, and their cry went up to heaven….

Chapter X

1. Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent

=Uriel= to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 2. ‘‹Go to Noah and› tell

him in my name “Hide thyself!”, and reveal to him the end that is

approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is

about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.

3. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved

for all the generations of the world.’ 4. And again the Lord said to

Raphael: ‘Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and

make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein.

5. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with

darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he

may not see light. 6. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be

cast into the fire. 7. And heal the earth which the angels have

corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the

plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the

secret things that the Watchers have =disclosed= and have taught their

sons. 8. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that

were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.’ 9. And to Gabriel said

the Lord: ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against

the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication

and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men: [and cause them to

go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each

other in battle: for length of days shall they not have. 10. And no

request that they (i. e. their fathers) make of thee shall be granted

unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal

life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.’ 11. And

the Lord said unto Michael: ‘Go, =bind= Semjâzâ and his associates who

have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with

them in all their uncleanness. 12. And, when their sons have slain one

another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind

them fast for seventy generations in the =valleys= of the earth, till

the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement

that is for ever and ever is consummated. 13. In those days they shall

be led off to the abyss of fire: ‹and› to the torment and the prison in

which they shall be confined for ever. 14. And whosoever shall be

=condemned= and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with

them to the end of all generations. 15. And destroy all the spirits of

the reprobate, and the children of the Watchers, because they have

wronged mankind. 16. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth, and

let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness

and truth appear: and it shall prove a blessing: the works of

righteousness and truth shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.

17. And then shall all the righteous escape,

And shall live till they beget thousands of children,

And all the days of their youth and their =old age= shall they

complete in peace.

18. And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall

all be planted with trees and be full of blessing. 19. And all desirable

trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the

vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for

all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a

thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil. 20.

And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all

unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the

uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth.

21. And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all

nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship

Me. 22. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from

all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never

again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.

Chapter XC

28-38. _The New Jerusalem, the Conversion of the surviving Gentiles,

the Resurrection of the Righteous, the Messiah._

28. And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and

carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the

house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off

and laid it in a place in the south of the land. 29. And I saw till the

Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that

first, and set it up in the place of the first which had been folded up:

all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than

those of the first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the

sheep were within it.

30. And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on

the earth, and all the birds of the heaven, falling down and doing

homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in every

=thing=. 31. And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and

had seized me by my hand [who had taken me up before], and the hand of

that ram also seizing hold of me, they took me up and set me down in the

midst of those sheep †before the judgement took place†. 32. And those

sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean. 33. And all

that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field,

and all the birds of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord

of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had

returned to His house. 34. And I saw till they laid down that sword,

which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the

house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord, and all the

sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not. 35. And the

eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not

one among them that did not see. 36. And I saw that that house was large

and broad and very full.

37. And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns, and all the

beasts of the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made

petition to him all the time. 38. And I saw till all their generations

were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among

them became a =lamb=, and that =lamb= became a great animal and had

great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over

=it= and over all the oxen. 39. And I slept in their midst: and I awoke

and saw everything. 40. This is the vision which I saw while I slept,

and I awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and gave Him glory.

41. Then I wept with a great weeping, and my tears stayed not till I

could no longer endure it: when I saw, they flowed on account of what I

had seen; for everything shall come and be fulfilled; and all the deeds

of men in their order were shown to me. 42. On that night I remembered

the first dream, and because of it I wept and was troubled—because I had

seen that vision.’

THE CONCLUDING SECTION OF THE BOOK. (XCII-CV.)

Chapter XCI

12-17. The Last Three Weeks.

12. And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of

righteousness,

And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be

executed on the oppressors,

And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.

13. And at its close they shall acquire houses through their

righteousness,

And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,

14_d._ And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.

14_a._ And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement

shall be revealed to the whole world,

b. And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the

earth,

c. And the world shall be written down for destruction.

15. And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,

There shall be the great eternal judgement,

In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.

16. And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,

And a new heaven shall appear,

And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.

17. And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,

And all shall be in goodness and righteousness,

And sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.

Chapter XCII

1. The book written by Enoch—[Enoch indeed wrote this complete

doctrine of wisdom, (which is) praised of all men and a judge of all the

earth] for all my children who shall dwell on the earth; and for the

future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.

2. Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;

For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things.

3. And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,

[Shall arise] and walk in the paths of righteousness,

And all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and

grace.

4. He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal

uprightness,

And He will give him power so that he shall be (endowed) with

goodness and righteousness,

And he shall walk in eternal light.

5. And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,

And shall no more be seen from that day forevermore.

Chapter XCIII

1. And after that Enoch both †gave† and began to recount from the

books. 2. And Enoch said:

‘Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect

of the world,

And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,

Yea, I Enoch, will declare (them) unto you, my sons:

According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision,

And which I have known through the word of the holy angels,

And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.’

3. And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:

‘I was born the seventh in the first week,

While judgement and righteousness still endured.

4. And after me there shall arise in the second week great

wickedness,

And deceit shall have sprung up;

And in it there shall be the first end.

And in it a man shall be saved;

And after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up,

And a law shall be made for the sinners.

5. And after that in the third week at its close

A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement.

And =his posterity= shall become the plant of righteousness for

evermore.

6. And after that in the fourth week, at its close,

Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen,

And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for

them.

7. And after that in the fifth week, at its close,

The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.

8. And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be

blinded,

And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.

And in it a man shall ascend;

And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire,

And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.

9. And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation

arise,

And many shall be its deeds,

And all its deeds shall be apostate.

10. And at its close shall be elected

The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,

To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.

[11. For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear

the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think His

thoughts? and who is there that can behold all the works of heaven? 12.

And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is

there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a

spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and

think them or do like them? 13. And who is there of all men that could

know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has

been shown the measure of all of them? 14. Or is there any one who could

discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon

what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where

all the luminaries rest?]

Chapter XCIV

6-11. Woes for the Sinners.

6. Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression,

And lay deceit as a foundation;

For they shall be suddenly overthrown,

And they shall have no peace.

7. Woe to those who build their houses with sin;

For from all their foundations shall they be overthrown,

And by the sword shall they fall.

[And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall

perish.]

8. Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,

And from your riches shall ye depart,

Because ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of your

riches.

9. Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness,

And have become ready for the day of slaughter,

And the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.

10. Thus I speak and declare unto you:

He who hath created you will overthrow you,

And for your fall there shall be no compassion,

And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.

11. And your righteous ones in those days shall be

A reproach to the sinners and the godless.

Chapter XCIX

1. Woe to you who work godlessness,

And glory in lying, and extol them:

Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.

2. Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,

And transgress the eternal law,

And transform themselves into what they were not [into sinners]:

They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.

3. In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as

=a= memorial,

And place them as a testimony before the angels,

That they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the

Most High.

4. In those days the nations shall be stirred up,

And the families of the nations shall arise on the day of

destruction.

5. And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off

their children,

And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish

through them:

Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings,

and not return to them,

And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

6. And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day

of unceasing bloodshed. 7. And they who worship stones, and grave images

of gold and silver and wood ‹and stone› and clay, and those who worship

impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to

knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.

8. And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their

hearts,

And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts,

And through visions in their dreams.

9. Through these they shall become godless and fearful;

For they shall have wrought all their work in a lie,

And shall have worshipped a stone:

Therefore in an instant shall they perish.

10. But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of

wisdom, and understand them,

And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of His

righteousness,

And become not godless with the godless;

For they shall be saved.

11. Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;

For you shall be slain in Sheol.

12. Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,

And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth;

For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.

13. Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of

others,

And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;

I tell you ye shall have no peace.

14. Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their

fathers,

And whose souls follow after idols;

For they shall have no rest.

15. Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression,

And slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.

16. For He shall cast down your glory,

And bring affliction on your hearts,

And shall arouse =His fierce indignation=,

And destroy you all with the sword;

And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.

Chapter XCV

1. Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters

That I might weep over you,

And pour down my tears as a cloud †of† waters:

That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!

2. †Who has permitted you to practise reproaches and wickedness?

And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.†

3. Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;

For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands,

That ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires.

4. Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed:

Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.

5. Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil;

For ye shall be requited according to your works.

6. Woe to you, lying witnesses,

And to those who weigh out injustice,

For suddenly shall ye perish.

7. Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;

For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,

And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.

Chapter XCVI

1. Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners

perish before you,

And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.

[2. And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,

Your children shall mount and rise as eagles,

And higher than the vultures will be your nest,

And ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,

And the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the

unrighteous,

And the sirens shall sigh because of you and weep.]

3. Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered;

For healing shall be your portion,

And a bright light shall enlighten you,

And the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven.

4. Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like

the righteous,

But your hearts convict you of being sinners,

And this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of

(your) evil deeds.

5. Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,

And drink =wine in large bowls=,

And tread under foot the lowly with your might.

6. Woe to you who drink water =from every fountain=,

For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away,

Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.

7. Woe to you who work unrighteousness,

And deceit and blasphemy:

It shall be a memorial against you for evil.

8. Woe to you, ye mighty,

Who with might oppress the righteous;

For the day of your destruction is coming.

In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous—in the

day of your judgement.

Chapter XCVII

1. Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a

shame,

And perish in the day of unrighteousness.

2. Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most High is mindful

of your destruction,

And the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.

3. What will ye do, ye sinners,

And whither will ye flee on that day of judgement,

When ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?

4. Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,

Against whom this word shall be a testimony:

“Ye have been companions of sinners.”

5. And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto

the Lord.

And for you the days of your judgement shall come,

6. And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out

before the Great Holy One;

And your faces shall be covered with shame,

And He will reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.

7. Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid-ocean and on the dry

land,

Whose remembrance is evil against you.

8. Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness, and

say:

“We have become rich with riches and have possessions,

And have acquired everything we have desired.

9. And now let us do what we purposed:

For we have gathered silver,

9^d And many are the husbandmen in our houses,

9^c And our granaries are (brim)full as with water.”

10. Yea, and like water your lies shall flow away;

For your riches shall not abide,

But speedily ascend from you;

For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness,

And ye shall be given over to a great curse.

Chapter XCVIII

1. And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish,

For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.

2. For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,

And coloured garments more than a virgin:

In royalty and in grandeur and in power,

And in silver and in gold and in purple,

And in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water.

3. Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,

And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions;

And with all their glory and their splendour,

And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution,

Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.

4. I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a

slave,

And a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman,

Even so sin has not been sent upon the earth,

But man of himself has created it,

And under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.

5. And barrenness has not been given to the woman,

But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without

children.

6. I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,

That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,

And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.

7. And do not think in your spirit, nor say in your heart, that ye do

not know and that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in

heaven in the presence of the Most High. 8. From henceforth ye know that

all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till

the day of your judgement.

9. Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye

transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.

10. And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction:

wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die;

for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great

judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.

11. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat

blood:

Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled?

From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in

abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace. 12. Woe to you

who love the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good hap

unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the

righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no

mercy upon you. 13. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the

righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. 14. Woe to you who set at

nought the words of the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life.

15. Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write

down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their)

neighbour. 16. Therefore they shall have no peace, but die a sudden

death.

Chapter XI

1. And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing

which are in the heaven, so as to send them down upon the earth over

the work and labour of the children of men. 2. And truth and peace shall

be associated together throughout all the days of the world and

throughout all the generations =of men=.’

XII-XVI. _Dream Vision of Enoch: his intercession for Azâzêl and the

fallen Angels: and his announcement to them of their first and final

doom._

Chapter XII

1. Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children

of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become

of him. 2. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days

were with the holy ones.

3. And I, Enoch, was blessing the Lord of =majesty= and the King of the

ages, and lo! the Watchers called me—Enoch the scribe—and said to me: 4.

‘Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, †declare† to the Watchers of

the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and

have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of

earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: “Ye have wrought great

destruction on the earth: 5. And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness

of sin: and inasmuch as †they† delight themselves in †their† children,

6. The murder of †their† beloved ones shall †they† see, and over the

destruction of †their† children shall †they† lament, and shall make

supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.”’

Chapter XIII

1. And Enoch went and said: ‘Azâzêl, thou shalt have no peace: a

severe sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds: 2. And

thou shalt not have toleration nor †request† granted to thee, because of

the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works

of godlessness and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to

men.’ 3. Then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all

afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. 4. And they besought me to

draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to

read their petition in the presence of the Lord of heaven. 5. For from

thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their eyes to

heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned. 6.

Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer †in regard to their

spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their requests

that they should have forgiveness and length ‹of days›†. 7. And I went

off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south

of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell asleep. 8. And

behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw

visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding (me) to tell it to

the sons of heaven, and reprimand them. 9. And when I awaked, I came

unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in

’Abelsjâîl, which is between Lebanon and Sênêsêr, with their faces

covered. 10. And I recounted before them all the visions which I had

seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to

reprimand the heavenly Watchers.

Chapter XIV

1. The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of

the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great

One in that vision. 2. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a

tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has

given to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart. 3. As

He hath created and given to man the power of understanding the word of

wisdom, so hath He created me also and given me the power of

reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven. 4. I wrote out your

petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not

be granted unto you throughout all the days of eternity, and that

judgement has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not

be granted unto you. 5. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into

heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree has

gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world. 6. And (that)

previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and

you shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by

the sword. 7. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted,

nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and =speak all the

words= contained in the writing which I have written. 8. And the vision

was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist

summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and

=hastened= me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted

me upward, and bore me into heaven. 9. And I went in till I drew nigh to

a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and

it began to affright me. 10. And I went into the tongues of fire and

drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of

the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its

groundwork was of crystal. 11. Its ceiling was like the path of the

stars and the lightnings, and between them were fiery cherubim, and

their heaven was (clear as) water. 12. A flaming fire surrounded the

walls, and its portals blazed with fire. 13. And I entered into that

house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there were no delights of

life therein: fear covered me, and trembling gat hold upon me. 14. And

as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision,

15. And lo! there was a second house, greater than the former, and the

entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire.

16. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence

and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent.

17. And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path

of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. 18. And I looked

and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the

wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the =vision= of

cherubim. 19. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming

fire so that I could not look thereon. 20. And the Great Glory sat

thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter

than any snow. 21. None of the angels could enter and could behold His

face by reason of the magnificence and glory, and no flesh could behold

Him. 22. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood

before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times ten

thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counsellor. 23. And the

most holy ones who were nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart

from Him. 24. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling:

and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ‘Come hither,

Enoch, and hear my word.’ 25. And one of the holy ones came to me and

waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my

face downwards.

Chapter XIX

1. And Uriel said to me: ‘Here shall stand the angels who have

connected themselves with women, and their spirits, assuming many

different forms, are defiling mankind, and shall lead them astray into

sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand), till the day

of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made

an end of. 2. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall

become sirens.’ 3. And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all

things: and no man shall see as I have seen.

Chapter XL

1. And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand

times ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who

stood before the Lord of Spirits. 2. And on the four sides of the Lord

of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not,

and I learnt their names: for the angel who went with me made known to

me their names, and showed me all the hidden things.

3. And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered

praises before the Lord of glory. 4. The first voice blesses the Lord of

Spirits for ever and ever. 5. And the second voice I heard blessing the

Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits. 6. And

the third voice I heard =pray and intercede= for those who dwell on the

earth and =supplicate= in the name of the Lord of Spirits. 7. And I

heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to

come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth.

8. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me

everything that is hidden: ‘Who are these four presences which I have

seen and whose words I have heard and written down?’ 9. And he said to

me: ‘This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the

second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the

children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the

powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto

hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’ 10. And these

are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard

in those days.

Chapter XLI

3-9. Astronomical Secrets.

3. And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the

thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over

the earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there I saw from

whence they proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the

dusty earth. 4. And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds

are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist,

and of the clouds, and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the

beginning of the world. 5. And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon,

whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious

return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit,

and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their

orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each

other, in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together. 6.

And first the sun goes forth and traverses his path according to the

commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever and

ever. 7. And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the

moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day

and by night—the one holding a position opposite to the other before the

Lord of Spirits.

And they give thanks and praise and rest not;

For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.

8. For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,

And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous,

And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,

Who made a separation between the light and the darkness,

And divided the spirits of men,

And strengthened the spirits of the righteous,

In the name of His righteousness.

9. For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints

a judge for them all and he judges them all before Him.

Chapter XLII

1. Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;

Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.

2. Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,

And found no dwelling-place:

Wisdom returned to her place

And took her seat among the angels.

3. And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:

Whom she sought not she found,

And dwelt with them,

As rain in a desert,

And dew on a thirsty land.

Chapter XLIII

1. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw

how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. 2.

And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their

proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of

their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I

saw) their revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how)

they keep faith with each other. 3. And I asked the angel who went with

me who showed me what was hidden: ‘What are these?’ 4. And he said to

me: ‘The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning (lit.

‘their parable’): these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth

and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’

Chapter XLIV

Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how

some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their

new form.

XLV-LVII. =The Second Parable.=

The Lot of the Apostates: the New Heaven and the New Earth.

Chapter XLIX

1. For wisdom is poured out like water,

And glory faileth not before him for evermore.

2. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,

And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,

And have no continuance;

Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,

And his glory is for ever and ever,

And his might unto all generations.

3. And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,

And the spirit which gives insight,

And the spirit of understanding and of might,

And the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.

4. And he shall judge the secret things,

And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;

For he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His

good pleasure.

Chapter XLV

1. And this is the Second Parable concerning those who deny the

name of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.

2. And into the heaven they shall not ascend,

And on the earth they shall not come:

Such shall be the lot of the sinners

Who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,

Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.

3. On that day Mine Elect, One shall sit on the throne of glory

And shall =try= their works,

And their places of rest shall be innumerable.

And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine

elect ones,

And those who have called upon My glorious name:

4. Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.

And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and

light,

5. And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:

And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:

But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.

6. For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones,

And have caused them to dwell before Me:

But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,

So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.

Chapter XLVI

1. And there I saw One, who had a head of days,

And His head was white like wool,

And with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance

of a man,

And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.

2. And I asked the =angel= who went with me and showed me all the hidden

things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and)

why he went with the Head of Days? 3. And he answered and said unto me:

This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness,

With whom dwelleth righteousness,

And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,

Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,

And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in

uprightness for ever.

4. And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen

Shall †raise up† the kings and the mighty from their seats,

[And the strong from their thrones]

And shall loosen the reins of the strong,

And break the teeth of the sinners;

5. [And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms]

Because they do not extol and praise Him,

Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.

6. And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,

And shall fill them with shame.

And darkness shall be their dwelling,

And worms shall be their bed,

And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,

Because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.

7. And these are they who †judge† the stars of heaven,

[And raise their hands against the Most High],

†And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it†.

And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,

And their power rests upon their riches,

And their faith is in the †gods† which they have made with their

hands,

And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,

8. And they persecute the houses of His congregations,

And the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.

Chapter XLVII

1. And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the

righteous.

And the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of

Spirits.

2. In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens

Shall unite with one voice

And supplicate and pray [and praise,

And give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits]

On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,

And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the

Lord of Spirits,

That judgement may be done unto them,

And that they may not have to suffer for ever.

3. In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon

the throne of His glory,

And the books of the living were opened before Him:

And all His host which is in heaven above and

His counsellors stood before Him,

4. And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;

Because the number of the righteous =had been offered=,

And the prayer of the righteous had been heard,

And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of

Spirits.

Chapter XLVIII

1. And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness,

Which was inexhaustible:

And around it were many fountains of wisdom;

And all the thirsty drank of them,

And were filled with wisdom,

And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.

2. And at that hour that Son of Man was named

In the presence of the Lord of Spirits,

And his name before the Head of Days.

3. Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,

Before the stars of the heaven were made,

His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.

4. He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves

and not fall,

And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,

And the hope of those who are troubled of heart.

5. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,

And will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of

Spirits.

6. And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him,

Before the creation of the world and for evermore.

7. And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the

holy and righteous;

For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous;

Because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness,

And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of

Spirits:

For in his name they are saved,

And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their

life.

8. In those days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the

earth have become,

And the strong who possess the land because of the works of their

hands;

For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be

able to) save themselves,

9. And I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:

As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy:

As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the

righteous,

And no trace of them shall any more be found.

10. And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the

earth,

And before them they shall fall and not rise again:

And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise

them:

For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.

The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.

Chapter XV

1. And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: ‘Fear not,

Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither

and hear my voice. 2. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have

sent thee to intercede for them: “You should intercede for men, and

not men for you: 3. Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal

heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters

of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of

earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons. 4. And though ye were holy,

spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the

blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh,

and, =as the children= of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as

those also do who die and perish. 5. Therefore have I given them wives

also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that

thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. 6. But you were

formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all

generations of the world. 7. And therefore I have not appointed wives

for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their

dwelling. 8. And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and

flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth

shall be their dwelling. 9. Evil spirits have proceeded from their

bodies; because they are born from =men=, and from the holy Watchers

is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on

earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [10. As for the spirits

of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of

the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their

dwelling.] 11. And the spirits of the giants =afflict=, oppress,

destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause

trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and

cause offences. 12. And these spirits shall rise up against the children

of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

Chapter XVI

1. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the

giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth,

shall destroy without incurring judgement—thus shall they destroy until

the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age

shall be consummated over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be

wholly consummated.” 2. And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to

intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, (say to them):

3. “You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been

revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness

of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these

mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.” 4. Say to them

therefore: “You have no peace.”’

XVII-XXXVII. Enoch’s Journeys through the Earth and Sheol.

XVII-XIX. The First Journey.

Chapter XVII

1. And they took and brought me to a place in which those who

were there were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they appeared

as men. 2. And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a

mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. 3. And I saw the

places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the

thunder, and in the =uttermost depths=, where were a fiery bow and

arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. 4.

And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west,

which receives every setting of the sun. 5. And I came to a river of

fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the

great sea towards the west. 6. I saw the great rivers and came to the

great river and to the great darkness, and went to the place where no

flesh walks. 7. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the

place whence all the waters of the deep flow. 8. I saw the mouths of all

the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

Chapter XVIII

1. I saw the treasuries of all the winds; I saw how He had

furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the

earth. 2. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds

which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. 3. And I saw

how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and have their station

between heaven and earth: these are the pillars of the heaven. 4. I

saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the

sun and all the stars to their setting. 5. I saw the winds on the earth

carrying the clouds: I saw the paths of the angels: I saw at the end

of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. 6. And I proceeded and

saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains

of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the

south. 7. And as for those towards the east ‹one› was of coloured stone,

and one of pearl, and one of =jacinth=, and those towards the south of

red stone. 8. But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of

God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne was of sapphire. 9. And

I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains 10. is a region, the

end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed. 11. And I saw

a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw

columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards the

height and towards the depth. 12. And beyond that abyss I saw a place

which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth

beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste

and horrible place. 13. I saw there seven stars like great burning

mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, 14. The angel

said: ‘This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a

prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 15. And the stars which

roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of

the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come

forth at their appointed times. 16. And He was wroth with them, and

bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even)

for ten thousand years.’

Chapter XX

1. And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2. Uriel,

one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. 3.

Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4.

Raguel, one of the holy angels who †takes vengeance on† the world of the

luminaries. 5. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set

over the best part of mankind and over chaos. 6. Saraqâêl, one of the

holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. 7.

Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents

and the Cherubim. 8. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over

those who rise.

XXI-XXXVI. The Second Journey of Enoch.

Chapter XXI

1. And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. 2. And I saw there

something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded

earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. 3. And there I saw seven stars

of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning

with fire. 4. Then I said: ‘For what sin are they bound, and on what

account have they been cast in hither?’ 5. Then said Uriel, one of the

holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: ‘Enoch,

why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? 6. These are of

the number of the stars of heaven which have transgressed the

commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the

time entailed by their sins, are consummated.’ 7. And from thence I went

to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I

saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the

place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending

columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could

I conjecture. 8. Then I said: ‘How fearful is the place and how terrible

to look upon!’ 9. Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was

with me, and said unto me: ‘Enoch, why hast thou such fear and

affright?’ And I answered: ‘Because of this fearful place, and because

of the spectacle of the pain.’ 10. And he said unto me: ‘This place is

the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.’

Chapter XXII

1. And thence I went to another place, and he showed me in the

west another great and high mountain [and] of hard rock.

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2. And there was in it †four† =hollow= places, deep and

wide and very smooth. †How† smooth are =the hollow

places= and deep and dark to look at.

G^g

2. And there were †four† hollow places in it, deep

and very smooth: †three† of them were dark and one

bright; and there was a fountain of water in its

midst. And I said: ‘†How† smooth are these hollow

places, and deep and dark to view.’

3. Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and

said unto me: ‘These hollow places have been created for this very

purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble

therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble

here. 4. And these places =have been made= to receive them till the day

of their judgement and till their appointed period [till the period

appointed], till the great judgement (comes) upon them.’

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5. I saw the spirits of the children of men who were

dead, and their voice went forth to heaven and made suit.

6. Then I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I

said unto him: ‘This spirit—whose is it whose voice goeth

forth and maketh suit?’

G^g

5. I saw ‹the spirit of› =a dead man= making suit,

and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. 6.

And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I

said unto him: ‘This spirit which maketh suit, whose

is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to

heaven?’

7. And he answered me saying: ‘This is the spirit which went forth from

Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till

his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is

annihilated from amongst the seed of men.’

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8. Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the

hollow places: ‘Why is one separated from the other?’

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8. Then I asked regarding all the =hollow places=:

‘Why is one separated from the other?’

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9. And he answered me and said unto me: ‘These three

have been made that the spirits of the dead might be

separated. And such a division has been made ‹for› the

spirits of the righteous, in which there is the =bright=

spring of water. 10. =And= such has been made for sinners

when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement

has not been executed on them in their lifetime. 11. Here

their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till

the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of

those who †curse† for ever, and retribution for their

spirits. There He shall bind them for ever. 12. And such

a division has been made for the spirits of those who

make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their

destruction, when they were slain in the days of the

sinners. 13. Such has been made for the spirits of men

who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in

transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be

companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the

day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.’

14. Then I blessed the Lord of glory and said: ‘Blessed

be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness who ruleth for

ever.’

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9. And he answered me saying: ‘These three have

been made that the spirits of the dead might be

separated. And =this= division has been made for the

spirits of the righteous, in which there is the

bright spring of water. 10. And =this= has been made

for sinners when they die and are buried in the

earth and judgement has not been executed upon them

in their lifetime. 11. Here their spirits shall be

set apart in this great pain, till the great day of

judgement, scourgings, and torments of the accursed

for ever, =so that= (there may be) retribution for

their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever.

12. And =this= division has been made for the

spirits of those who make their suit, who make

disclosures concerning their destruction, when they

were slain in the days of the sinners. 13. And

=this= has been made for the spirits of men who

shall not be righteous but sinners, who are godless,

and of the lawless they shall be companions: but

their spirits shall not be punished in the day of

judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.’ 14.

Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and said: ‘Blessed

art Thou, Lord of righteousness, who rulest over the

world.’

Chapter XXIII

1. From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of

the earth. 2. And I saw a burning fire which ran without resting, and

paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3. And I

asked saying: ‘What is this which rests not?’ 4. Then Raguel, one of the

holy angels who was with me, answered me and said unto me: ‘This

course of fire which thou hast seen is the fire in the west which

†persecutes† all the luminaries of heaven.’

Chapter XXIV

1. And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he

showed me a mountain range of fire which burnt day and night. 2. And I

went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each

from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful,

magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three

towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the

south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which

joined with any other. 3. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of

these, and it excelled them in height, resembling the seat of a throne:

and fragrant trees encircled the throne. 4. And amongst them was a tree

such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were

others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves

and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit is beautiful,

and its fruit resembles the dates of a palm. 5. Then I said: ‘How

beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its

blooms very delightful in appearance.’ 6. Then answered Michael, one

of the holy and honoured angels who was with me, and was their leader,

Chapter XXIX

1. And thence I went to another place in the desert, and

approached to the east of this mountain range. 2. And there I saw

=aromatic= trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and

the trees also were similar to the almond tree.

Chapter XXV

1. And he said unto me: ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the

fragrance of the tree, and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?’ 2.

Then I answered him, saying: ‘I wish to know about everything, but

especially about this tree.’ 3. And he answered, saying: ‘This high

mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like the throne of God,

is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal

King will sit, when He shall come down to visit the earth with goodness.

4. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till

the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring

(everything) to its consummation for ever. It shall then be given to the

righteous and holy. 5. Its fruit =shall be= for food to the elect: it

shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the

Eternal King.

6. Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad.

And into the holy place shall they enter;

And its fragrance shall be in their bones,

And they shall live a long life on earth,

Such as thy fathers lived:

And in their days shall no sorrow or plague

Or torment or calamity touch them.’

7. Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared

such things for the righteous, and hath created them and promised to

give to them.

Jerusalem and the Mountains, Ravines, and Streams.

Chapter XXVI

1. And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a

blessed place in which there were trees with branches abiding and

blooming [of a dismembered tree]. 2. And there I saw a holy mountain,

and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it

flowed towards the south. 3. And I saw towards the east another mountain

higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also

ran a stream underneath the mountain. 4. And to the west thereof there

was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and

a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine

was at the extremities of the three mountains. 5. And all the ravines

were deep and narrow, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not

planted upon them. 6. And I marvelled at the rocks, and I marvelled at

the ravine, yea, I marvelled very much.

Chapter XXVII

1. Then said I: ‘For what object is this blessed land, which is

entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley between?’ 2.

Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said:

‘This valley is for those who are accursed for ever: here shall all

the accursed be gathered together who utter with their lips against

the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things.

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Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be

their place of judgement. 3. In the last days there shall

be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the

presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the

merciful bless the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King.

G^g

Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall

be the place of their habitation. 3. In the last

times, in the days of the true judgement in the

presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the

=godly= bless the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King.

4. In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for

the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned them (their lot).’ 5.

Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory and lauded

Him gloriously.

XXVIII-XXXIII. Further Journey to the East.

Chapter XXVIII

1. And thence I went towards the east, into the midst of the

mountain range of the desert, and I saw a wilderness and it was

solitary, full of trees =and plants=. 2. And water gushed forth from

above. 3. Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the

north-west it caused =clouds= and dew to ascend on every side.

Chapter XXX

1. And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another

place, a valley (full) of water. 2. And therein there was a tree, the

colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic. 3. And on the sides of

those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to

the east.

Chapter XXXI

1. And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves of

trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara

and galbanum. 2. And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain to

the east of the ends of the earth, whereon were aloe trees, and all

the trees were full =of stacte=, being like almond trees. 3. And when

one =burnt= it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.

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Chapter XXXII

1. To the north-east I beheld seven mountains

full of choice nard and mastic and cinnamon and

pepper.

2. And thence I went over the summits of all these mountains, far

towards the east of the earth, and passed above the Erythraean sea,

and went far from it, and passed over the angel Zotîêl.

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3. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, and saw

beyond those trees many large trees growing there and of

goodly fragrance, large, very beautiful and glorious, and

the tree of wisdom whereof they eat and know great

wisdom.

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3. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, and

from afar off trees more numerous than these trees

and great—†two† trees there, very great, beautiful,

and glorious, and magnificent, and the tree of

knowledge, whose holy fruit they eat and know great

wisdom.

4. That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are like (those

of) the Carob tree: and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very

beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. 5. Then I

said: ‘How beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!’ 6.

Then Raphael, the holy angel who was with me, answered me and said:

‘This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old (in years) and thy

aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom

and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they

were driven out of the garden.’

Chapter XXXIII

1. And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there

great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also

differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the

other. 2. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth

whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. 3. And I

saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of

which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual

star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses

and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy

angel who was with me showed me. 4. He showed all things to me and wrote

them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and

their companies.

Chapter XXXIV

1. And from thence I went towards the north to the ends of the

earth, and there I saw a great and glorious device at the ends of the

whole earth. 2. And here I saw three portals of heaven open in the

heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there

is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain. 3. And out of one portal they

blow for good: but when they blow through the other two portals, †it is

with violence and affliction on the earth, and they blow with violence.†

Chapter XXXIX

[1. And it †shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy

children †will descend from the high heaven, and their seed †will become

one with the children of men. 2. And in those days Enoch received books

of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.]

And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.

3. And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,

And set me down at the end of the heavens.

4. And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,

And the resting-places of the righteous.

5. Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,

And their resting-places with the holy.

And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of

men.

And righteousness flowed before them as water,

And mercy like dew upon the earth:

Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.

6 a. And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of

righteousness and of faith,

7 a. And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of

Spirits.

6 b. And righteousness shall prevail in his days,

And the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for

ever and ever.

7 b. And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be †strong†

as fiery lights,

And their mouth shall be full of blessing,

And their lips shall extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,

And righteousness before Him shall never fail,

[And uprightness shall never fail before Him].

8. There I wished to dwell,

And my spirit longed for that dwelling-place:

And there heretofore hath been my portion,

For so hath it been established concerning me before the Lord of

Spirits.

9. In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits

with blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and

glory according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. 10. For a

long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised

Him, saying: ‘Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning

and for evermore. 11. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows

before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from

generation unto generation. 12. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they

stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy,

holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”’

13. And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him

and bless and say: ‘Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord

for ever and ever.’ 14. And my face was changed; for I could no longer

behold.

Chapter XXXV

And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth,

and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the

†east†, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.

Chapter XXXVI

1. And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth,

and saw there three open portals of the heaven: and thence there come

dew, rain, †and wind†. 2. And from thence I went to the east to the ends

of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and

small portals above them. 3. Through each of these small portals pass

the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which

is shown to them. 4. And as often as I saw I blessed always the Lord of

Glory, and I continued to bless the Lord of Glory who has wrought great

and glorious wonders, to show the greatness of His work to the angels

and to =spirits= and to men, that they might praise His work and all His

creation: that they might see the work of His might and praise the great

work of His hands and bless Him for ever.

THE PARABLES.

XXXVII-LXXI.

Chapter XXXVII

1. The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom—which

Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, the

son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw. 2. And this is the

beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and

say to those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye

that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before the

Lord of Spirits. 3. It were better to declare (them only) to the men of

old time, but even from those that come after we will not withhold the

beginning of wisdom. 4. Till the present day such wisdom has never been

given =by= the Lord of Spirits as I have received according to my

insight, according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom

the lot of eternal life has been given to me. 5. Now three parables were

imparted to me, and I lifted up my voice and recounted them to those

that dwell on the earth.

XXXVIII-XLIV. =The First Parable.=

Chapter XXXVIII

The Coming Judgement of the Wicked.

1. The first Parable.

When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,

And sinners shall be judged for their sins,

And shall be driven from the face of the earth,

2. And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the

righteous,

Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,

And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on

the earth,

Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,

And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of

Spirits?

It had been good for them if they had not been born.

3. When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the

sinners judged,

And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,

4. From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be

powerful and exalted:

And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,

For the Lord of Spirits =has caused His light to appear=

On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.

5. Then shall the kings and the mighty perish

And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.

6. And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the

Lord of Spirits:

For their life is at an end.